Erling Haaland

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Erling Haaland is the player The Premier is built around. Sleeper BPL 2025 scored his 2025/26 line at 317.2, first of 400. The other 23 boards average 3.87. Split the difference and he is still 1.01. Twenty-seven Premier League goals, eight assists, 34 starts, 2,953 minutes, 13 clean-sheet cameos that Sleeper barely cares about because he is a forward. The Pitch already had him first. The Premier does not argue.

The 2025/26 tape is the same argument on film: City walk him into the box and he finishes. 25.5 expected goals, 27 actual. That is not a lucky spike. That is a No. 9 doing No. 9 work at a volume nobody else on this list can touch. Igor Thiago's 22 goals are the closest counting-stat rival and still live 60 Sleeper points back because Haaland also added eight assists and a 6.8 FPL points-per-game.

Set pieces are the rest of the floor. He is first-choice from the spot. He is not on corners. He does not need to be. Threat 1,520, ICT 302.3, 43 bonus. Official FPL had him on 239 points, also first. The boards that fade him (Scout 24, SofaScore 17, Yahoo XI 10) are pricing the £15.5m hit or a single-week XI, not the season. We are ranking the season.

£15.5m is the market admitting the 1.01. The Premier's job is not to be clever about Haaland. It is to put him first so the rest of the 400 has a ceiling to be measured against.

Instruction: you do not trade Haaland for two very good players on this curve. Rank 1 is 12,000 BK Value. Bruno at 2 is close enough that a calculator will call some packages fair. The board still wants the Norwegian. If your league scores Sleeper, this is not a conversation. If it scores FPL, it is still not a conversation.